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An Introduction to Groupwork

A Group-Analytic Perspective

  • Textbook
  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Bill Barnes
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  2. Sheila Ernst
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  3. Keith Hyde
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  • Although underpinned by theory, the book is very practical (follows an actual group over a 9 month period, from start to finish)
    Looks at institutional groups, as well as staff groups or family groups
    Considers issues of race, gender and culture

Part of the book series: Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy (BTCP)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Individual and the Group

    • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde
    Pages 15-28

  4. Growing a Group

    • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde
    Pages 29-51

  5. What Happens in a Group?

    • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde
    Pages 52-81

  6. Working in the Group

    • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde
    Pages 82-100

  7. Working in the Group

    • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde
    Pages 101-124

  8. Differences in Groups: Heterogeneity and Homogeneity

    • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde
    Pages 125-144

  9. Working Together

    • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde
    Pages 145-162

  10. On Becoming a Group Therapist

    • Bill Barnes, Sheila Ernst, Keith Hyde
    Pages 163-180

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-192
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About this book

Building on the individual's personal experience of groups, starting in the family, the authors offer an account of why things happen as they do in groups, providing a basis for developing groupwork in a wide range of settings, rooted in an understanding of the interaction between individual and group processes. Particular attention is paid in the group-analytic approach to the social, cultural and institutional context within and outside the group. This book can be used both as a text for courses and to lead the therapist or group worker through the stages of establishing and conducting a group appropriate to the needs of the particular clients, residents or patients.

About the authors

BILL BARNES was, until his death, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and the Clinical Director of the NHS Consultation and Psychotherapy Service in Liverpool.

SHEILA ERNST is a Training Group Analyst with the Group Analyst Network and teaches at Birkbeck College and the Institute of Group Analysis. She is co-author (with Lucy Goodison) of In Our Own Hands and co-editor of Living with the Sphinx (with Marie Maguire).

KEITH HYDE is a Group Analyst, Consultant Psychotherapist and Clinical Director of a new Therapeutic Community. Formerly he was Medical Director of an NHS Mental Health Trust and Convenor of the Manchester Course in Group Psychotherapy.

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